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The high-end EF3 tornado had a recorded width of 2.2 miles (3.5 km). [14] 2021 South Moravia tornado: F4/IF4 2.2 miles (3.5 km) ESSL, CHMI, CUNI, Meteopress, SHMU, CU, Geosphere, Austrocontrol, BUT: This tornado reached a maximum width of 2.2 miles (3.5 km), setting the record as the widest tornado to ever occur in the Czech Republic and in Europe.
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
A similar size tornado struck Edmonson, Texas on May 31, 1968, when a damage path width between 2 and 3 miles (3.2 and 4.8 km) was recorded from an F3 tornado. [78] Another tornado with a similar width struck Maxton and Red Springs during the March 28, 1984, Carolina Tornado Outbreak ; this tornado had a width of 2.5 miles wide at one point.
This tornado has been officially rated at T8-T9 on the TORRO scale, indicating potential windspeeds of up to 269 mph (433 km/h). This places it weakly in the F5 category. The maximum track width of the tornado was reported as 200 m (660 ft), and the track length at 5 km (3.1 mi).
Tornadoes of 1945. Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945; Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945; Tornadoes of 1946. List of United States tornadoes in 1946.
Ohio tornadoes: Photos of the damage to Logan County from storms. Are tornadoes always the same size? The conditions that help them form are the same, but tornadoes come in all shapes and sizes ...
However, tornadoes are capable of both much shorter and much longer damage paths: one tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long, while the record-holding tornado for path length—the Tri-State Tornado, which affected parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925—was on the ground continuously for 219 ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.